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Originally Posted by sirpupnyc
It's all pretty nebulous...what kind of rooms open, IF they open rooms, what players they get...
Busy weekend nights at Borgata it can sometimes feel like NYC has emptied out into AC. Combine the players degen enough to bus or drive for it with the ones who stocked the underground rooms but just quit? If a casino in NYC wants to make a strong run at the poker market *and* hires a good manager...? It could be the stuff of dreams.
But, it'd take a good manager with enough clout. Why doesn't another casino in AC make a run at stealing poker from Borgata? You have to want it. You have to mean it. You have to spend money on it. You need room management who can say "This is going to be the greatest thing since the invention of the card, but you have to trust me and give me everything I ask for." Nobody in AC wants to put in that kind of effort. A brand new room in a brand new (ish) casino in NYC doing that? At the very least, we'll find out if Borgata means it or not.
Agreed. I can't see Borgata caring enough to fight for market share, honestly. Seems like to me they are just coasting at this point, and the room is just running on the fumes of better days before it. Everything has been downhill poker wise at most MGM properties since Bobby Baldwin left. COVID left a dent, too.
Soon after the NYC casinos go in, I think we're probably looking at NJ retaliating and the power that be willing to pivot to North Jersey casinos. I can see one of these new Metro area casinos taking the throne from Borgata, and quite easily. Someone will make the move